1974 UCI Road World Championships

1974 UCI Road World Championships

Montreal Montreal
Venue	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Date(s)	(1974-08-25)25 August 1974
Coordinates	45°30′32″N 73°33′42″W
Events	4

Freddy Maertens, 1974 World Championship Road Race, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Felice Gimondi and Eddy Merckx in action on the climb of Voie Camillien Houde.

The 1974 UCI Road World Championships took place on 25 August 1974 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal and the 1976 Summer Olympics follows a similar course to this World Championship. It was the 47th edition of the tournament and the first to be hosted outside Europe.

Results

Race:	Gold:	Time	Silver:	Time	Bronze :	Time
Men
Men's road race	Eddy Merckx Belgium	6 h 52 min 22s	Raymond Poulidor France	+ 2s	Mariano Martínez France	+ 37s
Amateurs' road race	Janusz Kowalski Poland	-	Ryszard Szurkowski Poland	-	Michel Kuhn Switzerland	-
Team time trial	Sweden Lennart Fagerlund Bernt Johansson Tord Filipsson Sven-Åke Nilsson	-	Soviet Union Gennady Komnatov Rinat Sharafullin Vladimir Kaminski Valery Chaplygin	-	East Germany Hans-Joachim Hartnick Karl Dietrich Diers Horst Tischoff Gerhard Lauke	-
Women
Women's road race	Geneviève Gambillon France	-	Baiba Caune Soviet Union	-	Keetie van Oosten-Hage Netherlands	-

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	1	1	1	3
2	Poland (POL)	1	1	0	2
3	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
5	Soviet Union (URS)	0	2	0	2
6	East Germany (DDR)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		4	4	4	12

External links

• Men's results
• Women's results
• (in Italian) Results at sportpro.it